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Essential Ethics for Leadership and Supervision

Minnesota Chiefs of Police Association Leadership Academy

Becoming a leader is much more fun than pretending to be one.

Worldview

Ought to be Are Can be Will be

Masters Level Thinking

“If you think we’re gonna lie for you, you’re nuts.”

Believe in all 10 commandments Call in sick when they are not Lie regularly both at work and at home Married people who are having or have had an affair Say there are no American heroes

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BALTIMORE, MD — Seventeen Baltimore police officers were charged Wednesday with taking kickbacks for diverting drivers at accident scenes to an unauthorized towing company and repair shop. A criminal complaint charges the officers and the owners of Majestic Auto Repair Shop in Rosedale with conspiracy to commit extortion in the course of their official duties. Brothers Edwin Javier Mejia and Hernan Alexis Moreno Mejia paid

• fficers to arrange for their company, which wasn't a city-authorized shop, to tow vehicles from accident scenes

and make repairs, according to the criminal complaint.

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DALLAS, TX — Dallas officers chased Andrew Joseph Collins after they saw him riding his motorcycle on a

• sidewalk. A sergeant had ordered the officers not to chase Collins, but they did so anyway. When officers

caught up to Collins, dash-cam footage showed Officer Kevin Randolph striking Collins at least four times with his baton as Officer Paul Bauer hit him with his fists and knee. Another car's video showed Officer Henry Duetsch adjusting a camera to conceal a portion of the arrest.

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LEWISBURG, PA — Agents from the Attorney General’s Child Predator Unit have arrested a state police trooper, Nick Sversko accused of using a computer webcam to send a nude and sexually explicit video to who he believed was a 13-year old girl. Sversko used an internet chat room to approach an undercover agent from the Child Predator Unit who was using the online profile of a teenage girl. After complimenting the agent about her profile photo and acknowledging her age, Sversko allegedly indicated that he was not wearing any clothing, stating, “naked is comfy,” and, “I am not afraid to tell you that I’m naked and attracted to you.”

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NILES, IL — A veteran Niles police officer was charged with theft and official misconduct for stealing nearly $2,000 from a dead man's room at the Leaning Tower YMCA, prosecutors said. The officer was caught on hidden cameras taking $1,700 of the dead man’s cash and loading it into a cardboard box. He was also captured on cameras taking the box to his credit union where he allegedly deposited more than $500 worth of coins into his account.

PHASE 1 Administrative Indifference Toward Integrity PHASE 2 Ignoring Obvious Ethical Problems PHASE 3 Hypocrisy and Fear Dominate the Culture

Trautman, The Corruption Continuum: How Organizations Become Corrupt

Creating Culture

 What really matters to

me?

• Write down the top

three or four priorities in your life.

“Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.”

• James McGregor Burns